In Dark Armour

Jodie Foster

Taxi Driver

True Detective

The Accused

Panic Room

Catchfire

Silence of the Lambs

Carny

Inside Man

A Private Life

Big Lonely City #245

Geometry of Anguish

         Odd Man Out is the more audacious achievement. It is a film where the camera does not merely observe a man's physical deterioration but becomes the physical manifestation of his fractured psyche. Central to understanding it's visual language is recognizing the shadow of a cinematic giant ; Greg Toland.

Quiet Cut
2026

https://quietcut.studio/post/812247900002435072/the-geometry-of-anguish-robert-kraskers-noir-and

I Was Trouble

I cheated myself
Like i knew i would
I told you i was trouble

Yeah, you know that i'm no good

You Know I'm No Good
(Winehouse)
Amy Winehouse

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Audrey Marquis

Something You Wanted

           Waking up in the postwar world it was as if all the jitters and anxiety that had been submerged for the war effort were now out in the open. Already a new style genre/sensibility/movement had been developing (though it was too unconscious and informal to fit some of those terms). Later dubbed 'Film Noir' this perspective scanned the hardened landscape with jaundiced eyes, yet with an undercurrent of wounded romanticism that made this dark world something you wanted to plunge into again and again.

Joel Bocko
from Noir and Naturalism
thedancingimage.blogspot.co.uk
Oct 2008

Straight Life

       A rhapsodic riff on self-destruction. It is also one of the saddest autobiographies ever written.

Terry Castle

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Straight Life - Art Pepper

More Film Gris - Borderline Noir

Il Grido

Duel

Notti Bianchi

Cool Hand Luke

Streetcar Named Desire

Save the Tiger

Grapes of Wrath

In the Mood for Love

Devil and Daniel Webster

Deep Blue Sea (2011)

The Train

New York, New York

Paths of Glory

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Invasion of the Body Snatchers